{"id":2941,"date":"2018-10-01T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2018-10-01T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:54:03","slug":"changes-to-the-microsoft-office-ribbon-again-for-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the Microsoft Office Ribbon (again!) for Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft love tweaking the Office ribbon bar. I\u2019m never sure if it’s an improvement or not, and that\u2019s certainly the case now.\u00a0 It is probably a personal preference.
\nActually, this time it\u2019s not a replacement, although it may look that way \u2013 it\u2019s a simplification option, although it looks to be \u2018on\u2019 by default. The intent is to keep the main features available, but take up less space on your screen. The current tool bar is quite large, and while it’s fine on a large screen, it takes up to 10% of the monitor on a small laptop like the new Surface Go which makes it hard to see much real work!<\/p>\n

So, its shrunk! It now looks like this
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It still changes based on what you are doing :\u2013<\/p>\n

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The good news is that the old \u2018classic\u2019 ribbon is still there, albeit the icons have been tweaked to reflect the new styles, and to take up less space as well \u2013 you can see the change in Outlook below:
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The ribbon operates as ‘full’ or \u2018minimised\u2019 and you can expand it easily by hitting the drop arrow on the right hand side. You will also notice three dots that we\u2019ve highlighted in the screen clip below. They drop down an \u2018overflow\u2019 list with more relevant options.<\/p>\n

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This should give you more screen space for email, documents and spreadsheets \u2013 which is a good thing, and you can still \u2018pin\u2019 your preferences to the ribbon to make it just right for you.<\/p>\n

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Finally, in the screen clip above, you will have noticed a \u2018coming soon\u2019 item. That\u2019s for the adventurous. It\u2019s a preview pane that will let you preview, read about, and experience changes that are coming soon to email and calendar.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good link to the Kambium service we offer to help you and your colleagues stay ahead of changes, and work out how to apply it to get the best wins for your business
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Microsoft love tweaking the Office ribbon bar. I\u2019m never sure if it’s an improvement or not, and that\u2019s certainly the case now.\u00a0 It is probably a personal preference. Actually, this time it\u2019s not a replacement, although it may look that way \u2013 it\u2019s a simplification option, although it looks to be \u2018on\u2019 by default. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tips-tricks-and-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}